![]() ![]() ![]() It ends when she is very old, speaking to her great niece, who is also named Alice. The story in Miss Rumphius starts when Alice Rumphius was a little girl. Recently, I stumbled on the fact that Barbara Cooney dedicated Miss Rumphius “To Saint Nicholas, patron saint of children, sailors, and maidens.” And then, of course, I had to have it.Īnd I discovered that Miss Rumphius is a thing of wonder. At the time, though, I didn’t have anyone the right age to read it with or give it to, and so I left it on the shelf at the store. ![]() And so the book escaped my notice for many years.Īnd when I first read it, standing in a bookstore, I thought it was sweet and beautiful. It came out in 1982, when I was already an adult, but didn’t yet have children. I didn’t read Miss Rumphius when I was young, of course. ![]()
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